You may have seen "An American Horror Story -- Open Letter from Ferguson Protesters and Allies (10.17.14)", Published by: dmckesso on Oct 17, 2014. This letter is well worth consideration, in part saying:
Even in facing this terror, we have not met those who mean us harm with the same. Even in the face of this terror, we will continue to force the readers and writers of this, a most American of horror stories, to face the blackness that they fear, the blackness they have spent this entire story trying to erase, trying to soften, trying to co-opt, trying to escape. We will no longer allow you to escape this story and pretend that the epidemic of black lives dying by white hands is merely a figment of an active Black imagination. You must come face to face with the horror that we live daily. You must come to know and profess the truth of this story, and be determined to end it.
We are not concerned if this inconveniences you. Dead children are more than an inconvenience.
We are not concerned if this disturbs your comfort. Freedom outweighs that privilege.
We are not concerned if this upsets order. Your calm is built on our terror.
We are not concerned if this disrupts normalcy. We will disrupt life until we can live.
This is an American Horror Story. Together, we are writing the final chapter.
--------- Signatories: users of 54 Twitter accounts that are hyperlinked into the document, accessible here. The signatories include people who, like many others, I believe are a fledgling cadre of leadership personalities to watch grow and mature in the coming months and years.
On October 22, the U.S. will have a stellar opportunity to make sure that these and many others of our citizenry are no longer subjected to the
outrageous math of mass incarceration. The national reality of that math is shown in this formula:
deportation + probation + incarceration + parole = genocide in slow motion
Here is a presentation (
"Lesson Plan") for those Kossaks among us who are teachers:
The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996
For those who use maps, recovering social studies teachers and national defense strategists, I recommend you check out
"This World Map Shows The Enormity Of America's Prison Problem" by Michael B Kelley & Christina Sterbenz, Jan. 24, 2014. Especially note the obesity-like situation of our prison industry in the U.S. contiguous states , Alaska, Hawaii and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Here is the national call to action of the "official" site for The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Here is another site with a prominent reminder to us that Demonstrations in Ferguson drew people from all over the country and riveted the attention of millions.
Contacts & List of Assembly Points for October 22, 2014 Last updated 19 Oct. 2014 Information is posted as it is received, so check later if your area is not listed yet - contacts for areas with actions in previous years are included when this year's details have not yet been sent in. Please email oct22national@gmail.com if you know of an action that is not listed below or if any corrections need to be made and to send reports of your protest!
So look over this outstanding slideshow in a usable lesson format and then answer the question: What will U do?
“There is an insanity in this country and that insanity is racism, and a lot of people aren’t even seeing it,” she said. “We’re taking it into the neighborhoods that are trying to sequester themselves off and act as though black people don’t stand beside them and work beside them and live beside them each and every day and really showing them that black lives do matter. We exist. We’re human just like anyone else.”
“I grieve, I live, I dream just like you,” she said.
Ashley Yates, quoted above, is a Ferguson native and a co-founder of
Millennial Activists United.
If this happened in #Ferguson heads would be crackin https://www.youtube.com/... #WhitePrivilege @bassem_masri @BellaEiko @GlobalRevLive
10/1/2014 UC Berkeley Coalition Takes Action against Privatization, Leads Alum to Action on 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement tells of the surprise march and sit-in action by UC students, workers, and community members of the Cal Progressive Coalition (CPC) at Capital Projects, the real estate arm of the University of California that is actively privatizing public resources.
Video here, Uncle Bobby (one of Oscar Grant's uncle) & others: STOP Police Terror, Mass Incarceration, Repression, and the Criminalization of Generations! #O22 -- October 1, 2014, the Revolution Club Bay Area, the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and "Uncle Bobby" took to the Fruitvale BART Station (the site of the murder of Oscar Grant by police) to call on YOU to be part of a national month of resistance against police terror, mass incarceration, repression, and the criminalization of generations.
Any questions? All Out For Oct. 22 !
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